Why do you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?
Interpretation
The quote questions why individuals allow others, especially strangers, to impact their self-worth.
Helena Bonham Carter's quote highlights the importance of self-esteem and the tendency of some individuals to rely on external validation from others to determine their value. It serves as a reminder that one’s self-worth should originate from within rather than being contingent upon the opinions or judgments of strangers, who may not truly understand them.
In practice
In a motivational speech about self-confidence.
Sometimes I get it right and I sometimes I get it wrong. But fashion is all about having fun. I think fashion has been hijacked by the fashion industry creating rules on what one should wear and I feel like breaking the mold and seeing that the world won’t crumble.
I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control.
Sometimes I go, “What am I doing with my life?” But then I get letters from young women, or people come up to me, and they say, “You’ve made such a difference to my confidence.” And that is a good thing. I should read more fan mail though. I’m crap at responding.
My life had been very work-orientated, and all in close-up. Once I had the family, it went into sudden widescreen.
Very early on, you figure out that you put your self-esteem in the hands of strangers. There's a different commodity. There's the Helena Bonham Carter that everyone thinks they know, who really has nothing to do with me. But you just have to let that go.
Wear what you feel comfortable with. People say nasty things about what I wear in the street. I'm always in worst dressed lists, but you just have to dress for yourself and nobody else.
For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains, And disapproves that care, though wise in show, That with superfluous burden loads the day, And when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains.
The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the attack.
Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
Speak the truth._x000D_ Speak it loud and often, calmly but insistently,_x000D_ and speak it, as the Quakers say, to power._x000D_ Material accumulation is not the purpose of human existence._x000D_ All growth is not good._x000D_ The environment is a necessity, not a luxury._x000D_ There is such a thing as enough.
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